If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.
In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.