The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.