For the maintenance of peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.
Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.
The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love and to this very day mill...
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
The only victory over love is flight.
Men in general are but great great children.
France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
It is cowardice to commit suicide.