When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

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

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.