He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.