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Marie-Jeanne Roland
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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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“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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“If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.”
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“I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.”
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“It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.”
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“Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.”
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“[On her way to the guillotine:] O Liberty! O Liberty! How many crimes are committed in thy name!”
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“The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.”
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“The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.”
Marie-Jeanne Roland, French political leader
(1754 - 1793)
Full name: Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland. She was usually simply referred to as Madame Roland.