One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.