The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux

In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other — by their skins, their language, their smell: always jealous of each other, always hating each other — they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.