The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
An empty throne always tempts me.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.