When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
The sewer is the conscience of the city.