My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.