"L’exemple d’un monarque impose et se fait suivre: Lorsqu’ Auguste buvait, la Pologne était ivre."

"Christianity… is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in …"

"But a prince, when he binds himself, does not bind himself alone, otherwise he would be in the same position as a pri…"

"I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiqu…"

"A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men o…"

"Truth to tell, treaties are only oaths of deception and faithlessness. The jurisprudence of sovereigns is customarily…"

"Ich empfinde für das göttliche Wesen die tiefste Verehrung und hüte mich deshalb sehr, ihm ein ungerechtes, wankelmüt…"

"It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provi…"

"Avec toute l’algèbre du monde on n’est souvent qu’un sot lorsqu’on ne sait pas autre chose. Peut-être dans dix ans la…"

"Audacity, audacity, always audacity!"