A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

In Russia there are no roads - only areas.