Love Is Stronger Than Pride

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.