Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries