Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.