Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Labor is life; thought is light.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.