Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.