The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

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.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.