A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them.
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.
It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing.
Be more than you seem to be.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.
It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.
The people say what they like and then I do what I like.
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
Pleasure is the most real good in this life.
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score.
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.