It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards