Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.