To-morrow my officers think Lambert will attack me.

I, on the contrary, am convinced that he will not stir; it is in my opinion impossible.

Lambert leads an army devoid of homogeneous principles, and there is no possible army with such elements.

I have taught my soldiers to consider my authority subordinate to another, therefore after me, round me, and beneath me they still look for something.

It would result that if I were dead, whatever might happen, my army would not be demoralized all at once; it results, that if I choose to absent myself, for instance, as it does please me to do sometimes, there would not be in the camp the shadow of uneasiness or disorder.