Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Friendship is but a name. I love no one.
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.