You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.