In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.
The king must die so that the country can live.
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Establish liberty on a rock of brass.
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!
I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.