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

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

There are truths which can kill a nation.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.