• “We could never subject ourselves to traditions, or blind our living future to feats already defunct.”
• “A tradition is a past that counterfeits the present.”
• “Nationalism always appears in history as a sign of decadence.”

I.

• “The source of that strange unease weighing upon my shoulders, that dull anxiety pervading me.”
• “This is what the Mediterranean is: this smell or scent which it is pointless to express - we all feel it with our skin.“

II.

• “The doctrine seems to have retreated before the land; and it is a miracle of the Mediterranean to allow men who think humanely to live without oppression in a country with inhuman laws.”