He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.

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

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.