Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he searched his bodyservant for poison, and he drank nothing but vinegar and water which he claimed was sovereign against the poison the fellow fed him, but he ate everything the man prepared for as long as I knew him. Once he had a grove of oaks chopped down because they were looking at him. And then insisted they be given decent funerals; he gave the oration. Do you have any idea how long it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees?" "Why didn't somebody do something? His Family?" "Those not as mad as him, or madder, were afraid to look at him sideways. Tenobia's father wouldn't have let anyone touch Cheade anyway. He might have been insane, but he could outgeneral anyone I ever saw. He never lost a battle. He never even came close to losing.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

God be with you.'
'Thanks, but I think, in battle, I prefer Satan’s company.

The world situation today seems pretty grim, almost everyone ready for a battle or a war. There goes a saying that I give away in the hope it will avoid wars and crisis. The saying is, "Brace yourself for a battle (that Russia seems to be telling the USA) and prepare to win the war".