True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.