So far so good, but that is no reason for praising yourself beyond measure.

Your imprudence was trifling; it exposed you to trifling perils; you did not risk your head by it.

The Penguins have lost that cruel and sanguinary pride which formerly gave a tragic grandeur to their revolutions; it is the fatal result of the weakening of beliefs and character.

Ought one to look upon oneself as a superior spirit for having shown a little more clear-sightedness than the vulgar?
I am very much afraid, on the contrary, Bidault-Coquille, that you have given proof of a gross misunderstanding of the conditions of the moral and intellectual development of a people.

You imagined that social injustices were threaded together like pearls and that it would be enough to pull off one in order to unfasten the whole necklace.