If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.