France will always be a great nation.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.