Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.