Let the homeland perish and humanity be saved.
Going to bed early and getting up early gives health and makes you die.
James Thurber
It is called perseverance when it is for a good cause, obstinacy when it is for a bad one.
Laurence Sterne
When you have Diogenes' lantern, you have to have his staff.
Sébastien-Roch Chamfort
Nothing will be less industrial than the civilization born of the industrial revolution.
Jean Fourastié
The greatest tyrants on Earth: chance and time.
Johann Herder