In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
The French complain of everything, and always.
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.