I made all my generals out of mud.
Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.