True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.