An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.