It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. |
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace. |
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. |
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. |
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. |
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. |
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written |
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 |