...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.

Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

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.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.