To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
The less men think, the more they talk.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.