It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
To be at ease is better than to be at business.
Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.