There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
Opportunities? I make opportunities.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
Imagination rules the world.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Ability is noting without opportunity.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.
Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
The superior man is never in anyone's way.
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
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