The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.