Popularity? It's glory's small change.
France is great because she is France.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.