If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.