Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
In Russia there are no roads - only areas.
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
Unavailable wars are always just.