Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.