“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”

“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.”

“All the great pleasures in life are silent.”

“War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.”

“A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”

“There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.”

“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”

“If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?”

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”