Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

Great men have great dogs.

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.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them