A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

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

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

War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.