Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall. '
The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.