What do you take me for, an idiot?

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

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

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.