To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.