France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.