Bernard-Joseph Saurin Quotes

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.