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

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.