Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.