Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents