The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

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

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

I made all my generals out of mud.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.