Straight ahead you can't go very far.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.