Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.