Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.
It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.
That man made me miss my destiny.
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
It is the success which makes great men.
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.
To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.
War justifies everything.
We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.
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