Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.

State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty.

Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.

It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

I'm try-sexual. I try anything that's sexual.

a king can only work with his best tools.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace