A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.

Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.