Lorenzaccio Quotes

“You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep”
― Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio

“There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings”
― Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!”
― Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio

“The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer”
― Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?”
― Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest”
― Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio

“L'humanité souleva sa robe et me montra, comme à un adepte digne d'elle, sa monstrueuse nudité.”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière.

Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.

(III, 3)”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. (III, 3)

Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Les grands artistes n'ont pas de patrie.

Great artists have no country.”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

“je jette la nature humaine à pile ou face sur la tombe d’Alexandre ; dans deux jours les hommes comparaîtront devant le tribunal de ma volonté”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

“You who know how to love know how to hate.”
― Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Those who God gives wings arrive to him smiling.”
― Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Dépêche-toi, soleil, si tu es curieux des nouvelles que cette nuit te dira demain”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Je suis rongé d'une tristesse auprès de laquelle la nuit la plus sombre est une lumière éblouissante”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio