Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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.
Adversity reminds men of religion.
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.