Treaties Are Observed As Long

There Is No Man More Pusillanimous Than I When I Am Planning A Campaign. I Purposely Exaggerate All The Dangers And All The Calamities That The Circumstances Make Possible. I Am In A Thoroughly Painful State Of Agitation. This Does Not Keep Me From Looking Quite Serene In Front Of My Entourage; I Am Like An Unmarried Girl Laboring With Child. Once I Have Made Up My Mind, Everything Is Forgotten Except What Leads To Success.

It Is Not Enough To Give Orders They Must Be Obeyed.

An Emperor Confides In National Soldiers, Not In Mercenaries.

The Mohammedan Religion Is The Finest Of All.

Civilization Does Everything For The Mind And Favors It Entirely At The Expense Of The Body.