Politics ruins the character.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

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.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.