If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.