Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

I generally had to give in.

What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.