Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.