Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.