Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.