The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.
Men are ruled by toys.
A general must be a charlatan.
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Time is the great art of man.
Men are never attached to you by favours.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
My enemies make appointments at my tomb.
Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.
The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
It is the success which makes great men.
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.
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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