Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

All that we know is nothing can be known.