Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided, act promptly.
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
