Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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.
Prosperity engenders sloth.
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.