People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.
In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.