Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.