When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.