You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. - François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

dans les grandes transformations sociales, les résistances individuelles, honorables pour les caractères, sont impuissantes contre les faits.

There is no power but in conviction.

Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then the passions, modified by climate, government and customs, differentiate the nations; the human race ceases to speak and hear the same language: society is the true tower of Babel.