The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Category Archive: 1769
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.