I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Hungry bellies have no cars.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.