To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.
I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.