Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.