Maigret's Dead Man Quotes

[to the man who murdered Albert Rochain and who has just described him as "a little man - a nobody"]

Chief Inspector Jules Maigret: I want you to know that his name was Albert Rochain and that he had a wife and that they were trying to start a family. And for all his little bets and his little winnings, his life was more successful than yours, because *he* didn't end up like an animal in a cage, despised by everyone, with nothing to look forward to - except his execution.