"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."

"The people to whom I have done the most good are those who complain the most of me."

"In war, men are nothing, one man is everything."

"The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior."

"The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know."