In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Men practice war; beasts do not.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

If you judge, investigate.