It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

Not everyone can be an orphan.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.