Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

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

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.