War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.