A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.