Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
I want to be the victim of his errors.
The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.