After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

The word impossible is not French.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.