A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
An army marches on its stomach.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
War is the business of barbarians.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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.
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.