Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.
Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.
Every man has a wild beast within him.
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.