 It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. |
| Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. |
| It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. |
| There is no greater evil than anarchy. |
| It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. |
| Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. |
| Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. |
| Evil gains work their punishment. |
| Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. |
| Always desire to learn something useful. |
| Success is dependent on effort. |
| A state is not a state if it belongs to one man. |
| There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. |
| War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. |
| Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere. |
| No speech can stain what is noble by nature. |
| A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. |
| A man growing old becomes a child again. |
| Not knowing anything is the sweetest life. |
| Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. |
