Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”

“France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forg…”

“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with…”

“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land…”