The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.