Without money honor is merely a disease.
The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
Innocence has nothing to dread.
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.