Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Haste is blind and improvident.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.