Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

To have lied is to have suffered.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.