Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

There shall be no Alps.