The fortune of war is always doubtful.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Mercy often inflicts death.