If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.
God is always with the strongest battalions.
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.