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