"One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves."

"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor."

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others."

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage."

"A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly."

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

"I鈥檓 not going to die because I failed as someone else. I鈥檓 going to succeed as myself."

"Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money."

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."