Necessity Dominates Inclination, Will, And Right.

An Army Which Cannot Be Regularly Recruited Is A Doomed Army.

An Army Must Have But One Line Of Operations. This Must Be Maintained With Care And Abandoned Only For Major Reasons.

Orders And Decorations Are Necessary In Order To Dazzle The People.

A General-in-chief Should Ask Himself Several Times In The Day, What If The Enemy Were To Appear Now In My Front, Or On My Right, Or My Left?

My Dominion Ends Where That Of Conscience Begins.