Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

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

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

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.