I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

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

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.