Only that which is well done is quickly done.
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
Practice, the master of all things.
After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.