Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

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

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

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

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.