Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

You cannot treat with all the world at once.