There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. - Jacques Maritain

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"… ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true.