Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.