The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.
Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.