In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.