Basta un instante para hacer un héroe, y una vida entera para hacer un hombre. - Romain Rolland

The true man of culture is not he who makes of himself and his ideal the center of the universe, but who looking around him sees, as in the sky the stream of the Milky Way, thousands of little flames which flow with his own; and who seeks neither to absorb them nor to impose upon them his own course, but to give himself the religious persuasion of their value and of the common source of the fire by which all alike are fed.

Երբ ընտրությունն արված է, էլ կարիք չկա այդ մասին խոսելու, մնում է լոկ ազնվությամբ կատարել պարտականությունը:

Man cultivates the vices which are profitable to him, but feels the necessity of legitimizing them; being unwilling to sacrifice them, he must idealize them.