If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

A true man hates no one.

The word impossible is not French.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.