Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

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.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

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.

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

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.