Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.