Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.