Let them call you coward instead of cautious, dilatory instead of considerate, unwarlike instead of an expert general.

I would rather that a sagacious enemy should fear you, than that foolish countrymen should commend you.

A man who hazards all things Hannibal will despise, him who does nothing rashly he will fear.

And neither do I advise that nothing should be done; but that in what you do, reason should guide you, and not fortune.

All things will be within your own power, and your own.