Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

France is great because she is France.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.