Basho

“Let us consider humanity a biogram (the basic DNA blueprint of the human organism and its potentials) united with a logogram (this set of "conditioned verbal habits"). The biogram has not changed in several hundred thousand years; the logogram is different in each society.”
― Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! Trilogy

“He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by good if dull tactics than his own men by bad but exciting ones.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings