The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.