God creates men, but they choose each other.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.