You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation