Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. |
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. |
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. |
Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm. |
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. |
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. |