The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
Inactivity is death.
