Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
Don't confuse meaning with truth.
For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.