Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
War is sweet to those who never tried it.
War is sweet to them that know it not.
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.