But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
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.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
