The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.