One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.