1. “There is no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.”
2. “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
3. “Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
4. “I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politician.”
5. “No nation has friends only interests.”
6. “Nothing lasts until it is incessantly renewed.”
7. “Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.”
8. “In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
9. “Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.”
10. “Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.”
11. “Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.”
12. “It is better to have a bad method than to have none.”
13. “You’ll live. Only the best get killed.”
14. “Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.”
15. “To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.”
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