I start out by believing the worst

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.