For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.