"The very beginning of the soul’s purgation is tranquility, in which the tongue is not given to discussing the affairs…"

"Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax ef…"

"As the peculiar faculty of the eye is to see form and color, and of the ear to hear sweet tones and voices, so is asp…"

"Whatever tends to lighten one's burden must be examined carefully. For although such alleviation is sometimes justifi…"

"In World War Two, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official Militia, but a…"

"The very possibility that there may exist timeless truths is a reproach to the life of laxness and indifference which…"

"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant and then it tries to silence good."

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

"I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in th…"

"Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good."