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

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.