Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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!
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.