Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
Unavailable wars are always just.
Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.