Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Fortune favours the audacious.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.