Dans les naïvetés d'un enfant bien né, il y a quelquefois une philosophie bien aimable. - Nicolas Chamfort

Je m'en vais enfin de ce monde, où il faut que le cœur se brise ou se bronze.

Sometimes when a person sees the roguery of poor people and the thievery of people in high positions, he is tempted to regard society as a forest full of robbers, the most dangerous of which are the policemen that are set up to stop the others.

His nobility led him to take a few steps in the direction of fortune, and then to despise her.