“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.”
“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.”
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time ”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power ”
“Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey ”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it”
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things”
“Everyone sees a little piece of world, together, we can see the whole one. ”