It Was Not Important How Many Enemies

The Most Glorious Exploits Do Not Always Furnish Us With The Clearest Discoveries Of Virtue Or Vice In Men.

The Same Intelligence Is Required To Marshal An Army In Battle And To Order A Good Dinner. The First Must Be As Formidable As Possible, The Second As Pleasant As Possible, To The Participants.

For He Who Gives No Fuel To Fire Puts It Out, And Likewise He Who Does Not In The Beginning Nurse His Wrath And Does Not Puff Himself Up With Anger Takes Precautions Against It And Destroys It.

Nor Let Us Part With Justice, Like A Cheap And Common Thing, For A Small And Trifling Price.

The State Of Life Is Most Happy Where Superfluities Are Not Required And Necessities Are Not Wanting.