After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Generals are not to be too scrupulous.