We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.
In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.