In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.