According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
