What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

Man is free the moment he wants to be.