What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.