Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Unavailable wars are always just.

Let the path be open to talent.