Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.