The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

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

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.