Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.