Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.
My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Ability is noting without opportunity.
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
The superior man is never in anyone's way.
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Occupation is the scythe of time.
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