It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.