The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

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.