Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
Happiness is a new idea in Europe.
Morality is stronger than tyrants.
It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.
What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. . . The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character. . . he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.
Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care