There Can Be No Prestige

No Policy Is Worth Anything Outside Of Reality.

Men Can Have Friends, Statesmen Cannot.

In The Tumult Of Great Events, Solitude Was What I Hoped For. Now It Is What I Love. How Is It Possible To Be Contented With Anything Else When One Has Come Face To Face With History?

Whereas Ordinary Officers Must Be Content With Behaving Correctly In Front Of Their Men, The Great Leaders Have Always Carefully Stage-managed Their Effects.

All My Life I Have Had A Certain Idea Of France.