Reflecții și Maxime vol. I.

Ambition is easily confused with vocation.

To help to glory someone who is not called for it, is to climb the house and let him down, when he has no wings.

In a fight there can be two losers, but only one winner.

Only the fall of the one who rose alone is truly tragic.

There are successes that humble you and defeats that elevate you.

Your victory begins when the enemies use your weapons.

Historically, victory belongs to those who are right.

Absolute confidence in victory is the very key to victory.

Ambition is a torrent that does not look behind him.

No flowery road leads to glory.

The glory of great men ought to be measured by the standard of the means used to obtain it.

To succeed in the world we do everything in our power to give the impression that we have succeeded.

There is a means to overcome bad luck - even the hostility of people -; namely, to survive them.

Celebrity means responsibility to history. I would also add: to reach a peak where you can grasp with your mind - in the ascent and dimension of humanity, with its history and actuality, with its eternal problems, and which could be reduced to wanting to know more and more in order to the survival and progress of the human species.

Failure is a conformity between reality and will, and translates into a state of mind of dissatisfaction and irritation; believing that what was due to him was taken away, the loser is envious of all those who have reached further than him, made responsible for his failure.

There are many who want to become famous... moreover, not necessarily because of human weakness: every mortal capable of something wants, at least in himself, to be recognized. It is about the so-called driving factor, which drives the human being and gives him confidence in his strength, wings to hopes, horizon of creation...

Consecration, like nobility and good reputation, generally obliges.

Ambition: ...haughty's neighbor, or rather, her daughter.

The desire for glory is not unlike the self-preservation instinct of all creatures. It seems to us that we increase our being when we can take it to the memory of others.

Where there is no weight, there is no glory.

Real racehorses don't run for prizes, they only run to get their blood flowing.

Gloria, when she dies, does not make a will in favor of anyone.

On the day of victory, do not forget to remember the previous defeats.

Glory is not fleeting, only those who have it.

Successes, in addition to their good sides, also have bad or even dangerous sides. They actually make people too optimistic and push them down paths that are not always healthy.

Glory's companion is pisma.

Gloria: ...so short a whisper in the silence of eternity.

Between platitude and arrogance, countless are the shades of tactics of claimants to glory.

He who does not fall, cannot rise.

A failure can be the premise of a victory.