An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.