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.
An army marches on its stomach.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
War is the business of barbarians.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.