A Constitution should be short and obscure.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.