Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.
It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.
Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.
There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow again.
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.
It’s not that I succeed, it’s that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.
Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.
Superficial goals lead to superficial results.
Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.
It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place.