The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Men are ruled by toys.

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