"We have not enough strength to follow..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.”

“When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.”

“Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.”

“World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.”

“To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.”

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”

“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”

“The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.”