Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
The superior man is never in anyone’s way.
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
Half of the people in the world are below average.
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.
Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.
A prince should suspect everything.
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
France will always be a great nation.
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.