Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.