It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
It is now, and in this world, that we must live
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
L'acte gratuite. The unmotivated action.
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination
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