War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.