Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

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.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.