As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.