• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

• Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

• How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

• If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

• In soft regions are born soft men.

• It is better to be envied than pitied.

• Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

• Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

• In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

• Force has no place where there is need of skill.

• Haste in every business brings failures.

• The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

• Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

• This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.