Impatience For Victory Guarantees Defeat

Impatience For Victory Guarantees Defeat

The Years Go By One After The Other; Time Slips Past Us With Out Our Being Aware Of It; We Grow Old Like Ordinary Men And We Shall End Like Them.

In Every Treaty, Insert A Clause Which Can Easily Be Violated, So That The Entire Agreement Can Be Broken In Case The Interests Of The State Make It Expedient To Do So.

Why Do You Weep? Did You Think I Was Immortal?

Up To This Moment I Have Been Pleased To Entrust The Government Of My Affairs To The Late Cardinal. It Is Now Time That I Govern Them Myself. You [secretaries And Ministers Of State] Will Assist Me With Your Counsels When I Ask For Them. I Request And Order You To Seal No Orders Except By My Command, . . . I Order You Not To Sign Anything, Not Even A Passport . . . Without My Command; To Render Account To Me Personally Each Day And To Favor No One.