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.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Great things are won by great dangers.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to which t...
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.