To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.


Letter to his elder sister Henriette (1841).

Ernest Renan Quotes

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.