Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

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

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.