A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
History is the invention of historians.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.