You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

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

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.