If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Respect the burden.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
You may ask me for anything you like except time.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.