These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.