No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.