It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.