Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
History is written by the winners.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
An empty throne always tempts me.