Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
A selfish man is a thief.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.