As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!