For This Is The Tragedy Of Man

Men Are Driven By Two Principal Impulses, Either By Love Or By Fear.

Never Lead Your Soldiers To Battle If You Have Not First Confirmed Their Spirit And Known Them To Be Without Fear And Ordered; And Never Test Them Except When You See That They Hope To Win.

Make No Small Plans For They Have No Power To Stir The Soul.

There Is Nothing That Nature Seems To Have Inclined Us To As Much As Society.

Besides What Has Been Said, People Are Fickle By Nature; And It Is A Simple To Convince Them Of Something But Difficult To Hold Them In That Conviction; And, Therefore, Affairs Should Be Managed In Such A Way That When They No Longer Believe, They Can Be Made To Believe By Force.