History is a set of lies agreed upon.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.