Benjamin Constant Quote

It is tough, it is painful, not to be loved when one still loves, but it is much tougher to still be loved when one no longer loves.

When the age of passions has passed, what else can we desire but to escape from life with the least possible amount of pain?

Freedom is nothing more than what society has the right to do and the state has no right to prevent.

The arbitrary is not only harmful when used for crime. Employed against crime, it is also dangerous.

We are such fickle creatures that we end up experiencing the feelings we pretend.

We must decide, act, and be silent.