We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.