France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state