Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

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

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