In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

A prince should suspect everything.

It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.