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.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

Posterity is always just.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

The general will is always right.

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