Never underestimate a farmer.

Anyone can act strategically, it doesn’t take much to make a plan. The skill of a general is his or her ability to react strategically when plans fail.

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

The final desire of any warrior is a good death.

There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

Stories shape the world.

Man is slow because he hesitates