Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.
To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.