What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.