In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge we must settle things by the sword.
As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.