Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Change is the essence of life.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Silence is the wit of fools.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.