Madame Roland Quotes

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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Madame Roland
It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

Madame Roland
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

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It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.

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I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

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Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived.

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The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

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There are in the world circumstances which give us for masters men of whom we would not make our valets.

Madame Roland
O liberty! O liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!
Before being guillotined

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The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness: it is the commerce of authors, women, priests, and kings.

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If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

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A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

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In delicate souls, love never presents itself but under the veil of esteem.

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If man knew well what life is, he would not give it so inconsiderately.

Madame Roland
Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

Madame Roland