Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.