War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?