I made all my generals out of mud.

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.