One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

Opportunities? I make opportunities.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.