Love and war are the same thing and stratagems and policy are as allowable...
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts and will always bear up against...
Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken and always gets above falsehood...
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them and to love when...
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
There is also this benefit in brag that the speaker is unconsciously...
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time watching...
God bears with the wicked but not forever.
To withdraw is not to run away and to stay is no wise action when there's...
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences...
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Well there's a remedy for all things but death which will be sure to lay us...
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that...
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of...
Diligence is the mother of good fortune and idleness its opposite never...
Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
