Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.