We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.