Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
What is uttered is finished and done with.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.