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.
War is ninety percent information.
Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
A true man hates no one.
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.
There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Opportunities? I make opportunities.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
I see only my objective – the obstacles must give way.