We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.