Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

A greater liar than the Parthians.