Great Ambition Is The Passion Of A

I Have So Often Been Mistaken That I No Longer Blush For It

There Is No Man More Pusillanimous Than I When I Am Planning A Campaign. I Purposely Exaggerate All The Dangers And All The Calamities That The Circumstances Make Possible. I Am In A Thoroughly Painful State Of Agitation. This Does Not Keep Me From Looking Quite Serene In Front Of My Entourage; I Am Like An Unmarried Girl Laboring With Child. Once I Have Made Up My Mind, Everything Is Forgotten Except What Leads To Success.

I Don't Employ Talleyrand When I Want A Thing Done, But Only When I Want To Have The Appearance Of Wanting To Do It.

A Man Does Not Have Himself Killed For A Half-pence A Day Or For A Petty Distinction. You Must Speak To The Soul In Order To Electrify Him

Being In The Tuileries Is Not Everything: What Matters Is To Stay Here.