Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.