Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.