Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

A prince should suspect everything.