In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
Imagination rules the world.
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.