As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.

Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr.); all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.