Nothing is achieved without toil.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
The glory is for those who deserve.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Amiability shines by its own light.