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

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.