The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.