How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Man is, above all, he who creates.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

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

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.