Augustin

“Humanity will blush to beget when it sees things as they are. Life without the sap of mistakes and deceptions, life ceasing to be a vogue, will find no clemency at the mind's tribunal. But finally, that mind itself will give way: it is only an excuse in the void, as life is only a prejudice.”
― Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“All men love live not by what they may intend for their own well-being, but by the love that dwells in others.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live by and Other Tales

“The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is the monster.”
― Emil Cioran

“Mourning is commonly the reaction to the loss of a beloved person or an abstraction taking the place of the person, such as fatherland, freedom, an ideal and so on.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion