The art of war is to make the enemy do your bidding.
That is why battles of the shield wall are slow to start. Men have to nerve themselves for the horror.
Tell me, what use is prayer, contemplation, or learning? Does prayer grow rye? Does contemplation fill a fishing net? Does learning build a house or plow a field?
So long as we remember names, so long those people live.
Skill helps, and cunning is good, but savagery wins.
Reputation makes fear, and pride protects reputation.
Religion makes strange bedfellows.
Play with the devil and you get burned.
No warrior stays alive by being slow.
Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity.
Men make a kingdom strong, not gold.
Men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.
