God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Haste in every business brings failures.
For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.