Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.
The law, that is what makes men stay honest.
An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don’t wash.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
Character is victory organized.
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth’s produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of ‘liberty’ sets minds on fire.
So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
We live and die in the midst of marvels.
Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o’clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.