The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.