The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.