A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

In most of mankind, gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

It is extraordinary that, when you are acquainted with a whole family, you can forget about them.

We should feel sorrow but not sink under its oppression.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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