Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
The real magic wand is the child's own mind.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.