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.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Men are ruled by toys.