A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

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

War is the business of barbarians.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.