Generals are not to be too scrupulous.
Leaders deal in hope.
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.
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.