I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.