God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.