Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.
A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
He is almost a statesman. He lies well.
God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.
Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.
The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
A man’s palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.
The process of quitting smoking doesn’t end with the last cigarette. It’s not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit.
Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.
I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.