On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

I start out by believing the worst

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Adversity is the midwife of genius