The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.