Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.