“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.”
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
