Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Respect the burden.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
All religions have been made by men.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Imagination rules the world.
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.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.