Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.