All Sayings

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

He who recognizes the One Lord through all, is a true Brahmin.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

I have seen the face of God.

Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Joseph, let us go away. They are throwing us out of here. Where shall we go?

I am the sultan of love.

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound, and it is the one flesh of all humankind.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Myself always wallowing in drunkenness, fornication, adultery, filth, murders, rapine, despoliation, hatred and all sorts of evil-doing.

I sent my ships against men, not against the seas.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

I was much disgusted at the first sight of the people. They were as rude and ill-favoured as their houses.

I have often tried to grasp that which I have found.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

The only way to keep a secret between two is to kill one of them.

I die as I have lived, a servant of science and a victim of the French Revolution.