Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

A prince should suspect everything.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

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.

Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.