We are free to change the world and start something new in it.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.