Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.