Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Laws are inoperative in war

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.