Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards
Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.
Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.
I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You
We should wash our dirty linen at home.
The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot
The army is the true nobility of our country.
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.
Men are led by trifles.
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!
I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
Let the path be open to talent.
If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
God! How men of letters are stupid.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.
France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
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