Literature is the most beautiful of countries

One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

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