Bernard-Joseph Saurin

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin