When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.