Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

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

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.