It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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!

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.