Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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

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!

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.