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

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

Come back with your shield - or on it

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.