The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.