By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.