History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History is written by the winners.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

The reading of history very soon made me feel that I was capable of achieving as much as the men who are placed in the highest ranks of our annals.

To have ultimate victory, you must be ruthless.

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.