There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

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

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.

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.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.