Let the path be open to talent.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.