Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

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

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.