In like manner Brutus is talked of as the enemy of tyrants: he was an aristocrat, who stabbed Caesar, because Caesar wished to lower the authority of the noble senate.
You talk of _child's rattles_--be it so: it is with such rattles that men are led.

I would not say that to the multitude; but in a council of statesmen one may speak the truth.

I do not believe that the French people love _liberty_ and _equality_.

Their character has not been changed in ten years: they are still what their ancestors, the Gauls, were--vain and light.

They are susceptible but of one sentiment--_honour_.