Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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.