Know your station and know sufficiency.

Rise early in the morning, retire early at night.

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

A general must be cautious in five things: reason, preparation, decisiveness, discipline, and restraint.

-- A 4th-century BCE Chinese general and military the

I would rather save one citizen than destroy a thousand enemies.

-- The Roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama

Courage without prudence is mere recklessness.

-- The Byzantine Empire's greatest general

Lernen ist erfahren. Alles andere ist nur Information.

-- Hermann Hesse