Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. Make them your models. This is the only way to become a great general and to master the secrets of the art of war. With your own genius enlightened by this study, you will reject all maxims opposed to those of these great commanders.