Know or listen to those who know.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.