“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.”

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.

Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.

I intend to work until the day I die.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Once you stop learning, you start dying.

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.

If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.