France has more need of me than I have need of France.
To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.