Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.