War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.
Who will be my equal?
Deception is the knowledge of kings.