Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.