In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.