You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.