Come back with your shield - or on it

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Character is simply habit long continued.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.