The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.