The thing is to dazzle

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.