There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

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