Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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.