Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. Secrets travel fast in Paris. Men are more easily governed through their vices than their virtues.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
I judge men only by the results of their actions. I like honest men of all colors. I start out by believing the worst. Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.