“Rogues, would you live forever?”
“Talents go by nature not by birth.”
“I love opposition that has convictions.”
“Every man must get to Heaven his own way.”
“An educated people can be easily governed.”
“In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.”
“Our work is to present things that are as they are.”
“I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.”
“If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.”
“Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.”
“They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.”
“It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.”
“The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.”
“The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”