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

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

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

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!