Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

History paints the human heart.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.