Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Men are ruled by toys.
It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.
A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
A general must be a charlatan.
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
Liberty and equality are magical words.
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
Time is the great art of man.
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
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.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
My enemies make appointments at my tomb.
Men are never attached to you by favours.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Promptly improve your accidents.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.
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