Friendship Is A Contract In Which We

If I Knew Something That Would Serve My Country But Would Harm Mankind, I Would Never Reveal It; For I Am A Citizen Of Humanity First And By Necessity, And A Citizen Of France Second, And Only By Accident

That Anyone Who Possesses Power Has A Tendency To Abuse It Is An Eternal Truth. They Tend To Go As Far As The Barriers Will Allow.

The Ottoman Empire Whose Sick Body Was Not Supported By A Mild And Regular Diet, But By A Powerful Treatment, Which Continually Exhausted It.

Society Is The Union Of Men And Not The Men Themselves.

[the Pope] Will Make The King Believe That Three Are Only One, That The Bread He Eats Is Not Bread... And A Thousand Other Things Of The Same Kind.