There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.