Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.