M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.