There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Never relinquish the initiative.
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.