When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.