"In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake."

"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."

"I have made all the mistakes of the generals before me, and I have learned from them."

"I have fought sixty battles, and I have learned nothing that I did not know at the beginning."

"Friendship is but a name; I love nobody. I do not even love my brothers. Perhaps Joseph, a little, from habit and because he is my elder."