Fools learn from experience, I prefer to learn from the experience of others. 

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes, The Wise man learns from the mistakes of others. 

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. 

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan executed poorly.

You can’t destroy the polish national consciousness or Roles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves. 

The Balkans aren’t worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier. 

Great Men have great dogs. 

With bad laws and good civil servants, it’s still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants, even the best laws can’t help.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.  

Politics is not a science-based on logic, they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful. 

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

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, shooting matches, and songs, it can only be carried out through blood and iron. 

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph

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

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