Solemnity is the shield of idiots

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.