Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

War is the business of barbarians.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.