What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.