To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Is there life before death?