In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Category Archive: 1769
The human race is governed by its imagination.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.