Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.