A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.