One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.