There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.