A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

All religions have been made by men.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

A prince should suspect everything.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.