A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.