Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.