There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.
All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
There are two levers for moving men – interest and fear.
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
If they want peace nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them.
Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.
One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.