« Tradition offers a wide range of characteristics to distinguish man from other creatures in the world. Vast program! Here are some funny ones: Descartes proposes speech, the whimsical Rabelais celebrates laughter, while Brillat-Savarin discovers, in the ability to distill fruits to make liquor, the way to prove that he is a man. Beaumarchais suggests that drinking without thirst and making love at all times sets us apart from other beasts. Finally, Valery writes that whoever knows how to make a knot belongs to the human race. By their confusing aspect, these attempts at definition simply have the merit of highlighting, not without humour, the difficulty of identifying the human being. (...) An overly simplistic definition is therefore dangerous. It misrepresents what is normal or not and leads to exclusion or exclusion. »

« Socrates: Does all this mean that pity hurts more than contempt? Alexander: Yes, no pity. Once again, I agree with Nietzche.Je think he sees right when he condemns pity, hypocrisy or seems to him. »

« He who, from birth, suffers or suffers, begins life with a benefactor realism. In the end, too soon advised that life is inexorably accompanied by sorrows, he sinks less easily into the decoration and, savoring the need of the fight, easily recognizes and thwarts polus polus a »