Haste is blind and improvident.

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.

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

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.