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

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

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.