Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

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

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]