A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.