Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.