Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.