-Virtue isn't entertainment and has no use for applause.
-Politeness is the origin of the virtues; fidelity their principle; prudence their precondition.
-You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the person using it to assert his strength.
-Love that takes is impure; loves that gives or contemplates is pure.
-Gratitude rejoices in what has taken place or in what is.
-From the 16th century humanity has entered on a vast unifying process, which in our days has reached its further limits.
-The health of democracies, of whatever type and range, depends on a technical detail, electoral procedure. All the rest is secondary.
-The world today is suffering from a grave demoralization which among other symptoms, manifests itself by an extraordinary rebellion of the masses, and has its origin in the demoralization of Europe.
-Europe has been left without a moral code. There is the aspiration to live without conforming to any moral code.
-Every man who adopts a serious attitude before his own existence and makes himself fully responsible for it will feel a certain kind of insecurity which urges him to keep ever on the alert.
-We are what out worlds invites us to be, and the basic features of our soul are impressed upon it by the form of its surroundings as in a mold.
-Our life is no other than our relations with the world around.
-Contrary to what it is usually thought. it is the man of excellence, and not the common man who lives in essential servitude.
-As one advances in life, one realizes more and more that the majority of men and women are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to external compulsion. For that reason, the few individuals we have come across who are capable of a spontaneous and joyous effort stand out isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving.
-European civilization has brought about the rebellion of the masses.
