In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
All things proclaim the existence of God.
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
Unavailable wars are always just.
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.
How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?
It is cowardice to commit suicide.
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
Great battles are won with artillery.
Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
Friendship is but a name. I love no one.
Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]
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