“Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”

“When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.”

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

“Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.”

“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.”

“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”

“To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”