In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

The French complain of everything, and always.