We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Oh, what company good poets are!

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself