Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

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.

Education made us what we are.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

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

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

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