Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.