There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.