The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
A starving army is actually worse than none.
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Space we can recover; time never.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
We are either kings or pawns of men
There is a joy in danger.
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.
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