When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.