Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Promptly improve your accidents.
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
Friendship is but a name. I love no one.