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

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

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

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country.