So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.