I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it

Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.