Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.

One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.