 But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. |
| One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. |
| It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. |
| He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical. |
| A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. |
| Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist. |
| Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. |
| Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. |
| It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. |
| We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. |
| Charm is a product of the unexpected. |
| A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. |
| It is the duty of man to raise up man. |
| Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. |
| Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. |
| An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. |
| There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. |
| Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. |
| We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. |
| Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. |
