All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism..

you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I….

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion..

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman..

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper..

Your wit makes others witty..

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education..

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly..

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing..

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions..

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read..

bad news travels faster than good..

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly..

Your wits make others witty..

To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling ….

The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion tha….

to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling mak….

The more a man knows, the more he forgives..

I will live to make myself not feared..

self-interest usually brings injustice with it..

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living be….