Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.