Let your desires be ruled by reason.
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
The wise man never loses his temper.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.