I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.