People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.