Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

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

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.