I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.