Cicero: “I am afraid an orator does lose vigour by old age, for his art is not a matter of the intellect alone, but of lungs and…”

But those wars which have glory for their end must be carried on with less bitterness.

In the matter of a promise one must always consider the meaning and not the mere words.

But for the most part, people are led to wrong-doing in order to secure some personal end; in this vice, avarice is generally the controlling motive.

It is, therefore, only a madman who, in a calm, would pray for a storm; a wise man's way is, when the storm does come, to withstand it with all the means at his command, and especially, when the advantages to be expected in case of a…