Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.