Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.

- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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

- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

- 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

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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

- Bernard-Joseph Saurin