Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
We are nothing but by the law.
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.