I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat
Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort
A Don Juan is not a man who loves women, but a man that women love.
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.
