Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.