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

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

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

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.