Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.