It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.