Haste in every business brings failures.
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.