A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?
Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.
Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.
The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
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