To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
These people really aim very badly.
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.