« Spinoza had understood three centuries before Gandhi that the real revolution is inner and that it is by transforming oneself that the world will be changed. »

« The plebe itself, once devoted to its Emperor, is tired of... additional taxes... In '68, Nero returned from a trip ... in Greece and Egypt where he put on a show... has been squirming, wasting public money and the sweat of legionnaires... ( 1 ) ... In 1106, in Vézelay, Father Artaud ... lifted taxes so heavy that the inhabitants of the village revolted and beheaded him. . . ( 1) Wikipedia: The Senate dered Nero. Upon learning that the senators were going to impose the torment of parricides on him (the culleus: covered in a hood, sewn into a leather bag in which animals - rooster, dog and snake - were introduced, the tortured man was thrown into the Tiber), he was forced into suicide, abandoned by all. »

« For Master Lucius, philosophizing certainly meant acquiring knowledge, but above all developing the ability to reason and act without a priori. Philosopher was learning to live as a lucid, free and responsible human being. »