Call no man happy before he dies.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.