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

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Unavailable wars are always just.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.