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.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

The passions are the voice of the body.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Finance is a slave's word.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.