Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
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.
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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 great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.