It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

Law, without force, is impotent.

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.