If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

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.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

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

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

All religions have been made by men.