Madame Roland Quotes

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.