Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.

The people say what they like and then I do what I like

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

Be more than you seem to be.