Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.