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.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
Prosperity engenders sloth.
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.