Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.

The soldier headed out to war is in the best position. He can unleash his aggressions on his enemy and thus serve his fatherland.

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world / to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.