Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
The word impossible is not French.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.