I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.