All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.