A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.