The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.