We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.