It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.