The tools belong to the man who can use them.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.