It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.