Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.