He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war
True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.