Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
The only victory over love is flight.
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
We walk faster when we walk alone.
Great men are never cruel without necessity.
We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
Vengeance is without foresight.
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
The French complain of everything, and always.
Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.
I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.
It is with artillery that war is made.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Character is victory organized.
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