When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.