Quotes

Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Imagined dangers are the deepest, and imagined enemies are the most bloodthirsty.

Jealousy is therefore only a fear, and a jealous man is a coward.

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

What great or glorious deed could we have performed if we had sat at ease in Macedonia?

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.