Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions