Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.