Experience is the teacher of all things.
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.