There is no gambling like politics.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.