France has more need of me than I have need of France.
When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.