Popularity: 2
Vote:   | A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | A Constitution should be short and obscure. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | A leader is a dealer in hope. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | A picture is worth a thousand words. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | A true man hates no one. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Ability is nothing without opportunity. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | An army marches on its stomach. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | England is a nation of shopkeepers. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | 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 principals which direct them. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | History is a set of lies agreed upon. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I have only one counsel for you - be master. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I made all my generals out of mud. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | 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 where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Imagination rules the world. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | In politics stupidity is not a handicap. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | It requires more courage to suffer than to die. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Let the path be open to talent. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Medicines are only fit for old people. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Respect the burden. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The French complain of everything, and always. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | The human race is governed by its imagination. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Victory belongs to the most persevering. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | War is the business of barbarians. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | What is history but a fable agreed upon? |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Women are nothing but machines for producing children. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. |