Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.