Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.