France is great because she is France.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.