Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

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

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.