If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.