True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.