A general must be a charlatan.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.