War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.
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.