When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

Education made us what we are.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded