I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.