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.

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

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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

A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it.