An Emperor Confides In National Soldiers, Not

Chess Is Too Difficult To Be A Game And Not Serious Enough To Be A Science Or An Art.

To Listen To The Interests Of All Marks An Ordinary Government; To Foresee Them Marks A Great Government.

Men Grow Old Quickly On The Battlefield.

In My Youth I, Too, Entertained Some Illusions; But I Soon Recovered From Them.

The Nature Of Christ Is, I Grant It, From One End To Another, A Web Of Mysteries; But This Mysteriousness Does Not Correspond To The Difficulties Which All Existence Contains. Let It Be Rejected, And The Whole World Is An Enigma; Let It Be Accepted, And We Possess A Wonderful Explanation Of The History Of Man.