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