I have only one counsel for you - be master.

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

History is the invention of historians.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.