The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.