The intoxication of movement was to Danton, as to Dumouriez, the continual need of their disposition: the Revolution was to them a battle field, whose whirl charmed and promoted them.
Yet any other revolution would have suited them as well; despotism or liberty, king or people.

There are men whose atmosphere is the whirlwind of events--who only breathe easily in a storm of agitation.

Moreover, if Dumouriez had the vices or levities of courts, Danton had the vices and licentiousness of the mob.

These vices, how different soever in form, are the same at bottom; they understand each other, they are a point of contact between the weaknesses of the great and the corruption of the small.

Dumouriez understood Danton at the first glance, and Danton allowed himself to be approached and tamed by Dumouriez.