Date: 1774

"If by collecting into one point of view under your eyes the villainous measures planned by Princes to attain absolute empire, and the dismal scenes ever attendant on despotism, I could inspire you with horror against tyranny, and revive in your breasts the holy flame of liberty which burnt in th...

— Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)

Date: 1774

"Will the holy flame of liberty which burnt in their breasts never burn in yours?"

— Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)

Date: 1774

"Thus the love of independency, for want of fuel, is extinguished in every breast."

— Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)

Date: 1774

"When once honours are discredited, an incentive to generous actions, to great deeds, is wanting; and the love of glory, for want of fewel, is extinguished in every heart."

— Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)

Date: 1774

"I expect the incomparable fair one of Hamburg, that prodigy of beauty, and paragon of good sense, who has enslaved your mind, and inflamed your heart."

— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Date: 1774

"As you found your brain considerably affected by the cold, you were very prudent not to turn it to poetry in that situation; and not less judicious in declining the borrowed aid of a stove, whose fumigation, instead of inspiration, would at best have produced what Mr. Pope calls a souterkin<...