There shall be no Alps.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

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

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.