Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.