Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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.
To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.