What is so certain of victory as patience?

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

More die in flight than in battle.

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.