In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.