"Luxury, which nourishes a hundred poor people in our cities, starves ten thousand in the countryside."

"All my misfortunes come from my having loved too much, and having been too much loved."

"The greatest evil is not to be good, but to be bad when one has the power to be good."

"The greatest revolutions are not those which change empires, but those which change the hearts of men."

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."