It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

This is no time to make new enemies.

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.