Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.