God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.