Madame Roland Quotes

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

  Madame Roland

  Freedom, Liberty, Dies

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• Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

  Madame Roland

  Freedom, War, Names

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• The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

  Madame Roland

  Dog, Men, Canine

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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.

  Madame Roland

  Strong, Political, Fever

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• It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

  Madame Roland

  Wise, Respect, Truth

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

  Madame Roland

  Wise, People, Judging

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

  Madame Roland

  Sheep, Weakness, Ass

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• Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

  Madame Roland

  Selfish, Love Is, Gallant

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

  Madame Roland

  Work, People, Forever

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

  Madame Roland

  Heart, Boredom, Feelings

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

  Madame Roland

  Doe, Cost, Injustice

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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.

  Madame Roland

  Mind, Amusement, Killing

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• I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.

  Madame Roland

  Reading, Years, Envy

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

  Madame Roland

  Sadness, Melancholy, Charm

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• Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

  Madame Roland

  Joy, Emotion, Sober

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