Laws are silent in time of war.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.