Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.