Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

A true man hates no one.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Imagination rules the world.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

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.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

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.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

An army marches on its stomach.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Respect the burden.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.