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"The Time of the Hero" Quotes
"The Time of the Hero" by Mario Vargas Llosa explores the moral corruption and brutality within a Peruvian military academy through the lives of its cadets.
cheating (education) | 424 pages | Published in 1966
Quotes
Man is not born to be happy, but to be honest.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... perhaps...
The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.