Gold will be slave or master.
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.
No one is content with his own lot.
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.