The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.