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

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

Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.