"When you are a great man, you must also be a great butcher."

"To talk much and arrive at no conclusion is a bad habit and a disease. It is a waste of time and an obstacle to business."

"To educate the people, one must first educate the nobility."

"I have often sinned, but I have never consciously done anything against the interests of my country."

"The more I see of other countries, the more I love my own."