The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
Man is his own worst enemy.
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.