Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.