This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.