History is the invention of historians.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
He is almost a statesman. He lies well.
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.