Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.