Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

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

A true man hates no one.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.