Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

He who leaves the game wins it.

Women of the world crave excitement.