To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
