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I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation
Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.
In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.
In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.
It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.