A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.