What is spoken among the people, what does not have a specific author, that becomes a kind of common good.
What can be more honest and noble than to teach others what you know best?
Wars depend on fame, and often a lie believed becomes the truth.
The children pay for the fault of the parents.
Who counts the soldiers in victory or in time of retreat?
There is no friendship between master and slave.
Necessity is beyond calculation.
I'd rather complain about my pain than be ashamed of my victory.
Fate never favors us with genuine sincerity.
Haste is late.
The good horse obeys even the rider's shadow.
The more you have, the more greedily you reach for what you don't have.
The Arabs represented a particular threat to the Jews, because these two peoples harbored mutual hatred, a common fact between neighbors.
The army that no one has yet seen always seems more threatening.
Historian's motto: no anger and no bias.
Favors are pleasant as long as they seem to be reciprocated; when they far exceed such a possibility, they excite hatred instead of gratitude.
Most of the laws were given in the most turbulent days of the republic.
Fear and dread are signs of love: if you make them disappear, those who will stop fearing will start hating.
In times of decaying morals, flattering too much and not flattering at all are equally dangerous attitudes.
In mirth, the mob is as intemperate as in anger.
In military affairs chance has the greatest power.
In a civil war, the victors and vanquished never reconcile for long.
There is no way to escape dishonor.
A shared and widespread hatred gives birth to a lasting friendship.
Remarkable and brilliant eloquence is the product of the good pleasure which the mindless call liberty; it necessarily accompanies riots, provokes the people to rage, reckless and impetuous; in well-organized states, it is completely absent. [...] The strict order and the strict laws that made these states famous are still talked about today.
No one, ever, has been able to use in the name of good the power obtained through murder.
During civil unrest, the safest thing to do is to act and move forward, not to meditate.
During civil war, soldiers are allowed more than commanders.
In times of turmoil and disorder, the worse a man is, the easier it is for him to gain superiority; in times of peace, only honest and decent men are capable of ruling.
In any war, everyone makes his own success, and the blame for a misfortune is placed on one person.