War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.