The way to become boring is to say everything.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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

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

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.