None among us is authorized to despair of a single man, except after his death, which transforms his life into destiny and then permits a definitive judgment. But pronouncing the definitive judgment before his death, decreeing the closing of accounts when the creditor is still alive, is no man's right. On this limit, at least, whoever judges absolutely condemns himself absolutely.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Nothing is given to men, and the little they can conquer is paid for with unjust deaths. But man's greatness lies elsewhere. It lies in his decision to be stro…

No great work has ever been based on hatred or contempt... Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.

Farewell the hope that mocked, farewell despair That went before me still and made the pace. The earth is full of graves, and mine was there Before my life beg…