A Son Can Bear With Equanimity The

We Cannot Attribute To Fortune Or Virtue That Which Is Achieved Without Either.

War Is Just When It Is Necessary; Arms Are Permissible When There Is No Hope Except In Arms.

A Man Who Is Used To Acting In One Way Never Changes; He Must Come To Ruin When The Times, In Changing, No Longer Are In Harmony With His Ways.

There Is Nothing More Difficult To Take In Hand, More Perilous To Conduct, Or More Uncertain In Its Success, Than To Take The Lead In The Introduction Of A New Order Of Things.

Men Should Be Either Treated Generously Or Destroyed, Because They Take Revenge For Slight Injuries - For Heavy Ones They Cannot.