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One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments. It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

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One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.