Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple. - Alfred de Vigny

Tout homme a vu le mur qui borne son esprit.

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame