The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.