Diplomacy Without Military Might Is Like Music

It Is Disgusting To Note The Increase In The Quantity Of Coffee Used By My Subjects And The Amount Of Money That Goes Out Of The Country In Consequence. Everybody Is Using Coffee. If Possible, This Must Be Prevented. My People Must Drink Beer.

I Think It Better To Keep A Profound Silence With Regard To The Christian Fables, Which Are Canonized By Their Antiquity And The Credulity Of Absurd And Insipid People.

Christianity Is An Old Metaphysical Fiction, Stuffed With Fables, Contradictions And Absurdities: It Was Spawned In The Fevered Imagination Of The Orientals, And Then Spread To Our Europe, Where Some Fanatics Espoused It, Where Some Intriguers Pretended To Be Convinced By It And Where Some Imbeciles Actually Believed It.

No Government Can Exist Without Taxation. The Money Must Necessarily Be Levied On The People; And The Grand Art Consists Of Levying So As Not To Oppress.

Pleasure Is The Most Real Good In This Life.