Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.
France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.
There is a joy in danger.
History is the invention of historians.