“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool’s dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible

There is a joy in danger.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.