Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
War is sweet to them that know it not.
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.