I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.