"The strongest are those who are most alone."

"It is only a man who has lost everything that can appreciate a new beginning."

"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."

"Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it deposits all moral phenomena with its mantle of forgetfulness."

"You wish to know what you are doing, and how you are living, and what your relations are to society? Why, my friend, you are living in Paris, and Paris is the world."