A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

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

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.

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

The man who believes he can do it is probably right.