For a minute or perhaps two-and this is a long time-the theater makes man better and happier on this earth.

Men who love humanity have all dreamed at least once during their lives of bringing all their fellow men together in a state of carefree happiness. And only the world of the theater ever really succeeds in doing this.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.