An empty throne always tempts me.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

Promptly improve your accidents.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.