Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

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

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

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