I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.