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