The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.