Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.

A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

God is always with the strongest battalions.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.