“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die”

“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins”

“I am not the least afraid to die”

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it”

“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life”