Passions Change, Politics Are Immutable.

Reconnaissance Memoranda Should Always Be Written In The Simplest Style And Be Purely Descriptive. They Should Never Stray From Their Objective By Introducing Extraneous Ideas.

There Are In Europe Many Good Generals, But They See Too Many Things At Once. I See One Thing, Namely The Enemy's Main Body. I Try To Crush It, Confident That Secondary Matters Will Then Settle Themselves.

Malice Delights To Blacken The Characters Of Prominent Men.

An Empty Throne Always Tempts Me.

All Italians Are Plunderers.