In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.