Did you think I was immortal?

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

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.

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

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

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 God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?