The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

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.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

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.