The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

Each day is a little bit of history