A general must be a charlatan.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.