Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.