Vitam Impendere Vero (i Consecrate My Life

If You Run After Wit, You Will Succeed In Catching Folly.

Life Was Given To Me As A Favor, So I May Abandon It When It Is One No Longer.

You Have To Study A Great Deal To Know A Little.

If I Knew Of Something That Could Serve My Nation But Would Ruin Another, I Would Not Propose It To My Prince, For I Am First A Man And Only Then A Frenchman... Because I Am Necessarily A Man, And Only Accidentally Am I French.

It Is Always The Adventurers Who Do Great Things, Not The Sovereigns Of Great Empires.