The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.