Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

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.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

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

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

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.