There is no success without hardship.
What you can't enforce, do not command.
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?