It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Valor is the soldier's adornment.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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.