Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.