I am no longer sure of anything. If I gratify my desires, I sin, but I free myself of desire; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Do you think that I count the days? We have only one now, that begins and begins again; it is given to us with the dawn and taken away with the night.
Better have beasts that stand and let themselves be killed than men who run like rabbits.
A victory described in detail is indistinguishable from a defeat.
A man can’t become a saint when he has to work sixteen hours a day.
