Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

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.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.