History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.