You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

A love that dies has never lived.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!