I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.