Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.