No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.