Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.