It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.