I believe the present matters – not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms – a false perspective.
Gentlemen who have no sense of humour get to taking themselves too seriously – and that leads to mischief.
Every new development that arises is like the shake you give to a kaleidoscope – the thing changes entirely in aspect.
Death isn’t really so important as we make out.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Before passionately craving something, we should ascertain how happy are those who possess it.[Avant que de désirer fortement une chose, il faut examiner quel est le bonheur de celui qui la possède.]
Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don’t exist for them.
