To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.