The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.
What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.
A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.
The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
There is no power without justice.
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.
What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.
There shall be no Alps.
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.
Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.
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