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

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.