A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.