History is the invention of historians.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

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

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.