My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.