The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.