Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

War is the business of barbarians.

A general must be a charlatan.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.