Promptly improve your accidents.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

I start out by believing the worst

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

An empty throne always tempts me.