A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.