Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Reading brings us unknown friends