Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

The comforter's head never aches.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.