Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.