People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Speech is civilization itself.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.