Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Before all else, be armed.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.