You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.
People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made.
You can’t destroy the Polish national consciousness, or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves.
Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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!
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
I have wished to crush Rome that I might crush Christianity.
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
Never fight with Russians. They answer every stratagem with unpredictable stupidity.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night.
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.