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

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.