Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.
The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.
Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.