Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. – Julien Benda
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. – Julien Benda
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning mans future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. – Julien Benda
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881