“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”

“Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.”

“To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.”

“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”

“Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never”

“By my hand and for the good of the state”