The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The passions are the voice of the body.

Finance is a slave's word.

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.