History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

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

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.