Economized love is never real love.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.