Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

Did you think I was immortal?

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.