Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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.
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.