Haste in every business brings failures.
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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.
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.