A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.