History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

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

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

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

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

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.