Time passes irrevocably.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

A fault is fostered by concealment.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

All things deteriorate in time.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

Every sound alarms.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

From one learn all.

Fury itself supplies arms.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

I shudder when relating it.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

None but himself can be his parallel.

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

The medicine increases the disease.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

To have died once is enough.

Trust one who has tried.

Veiling truth in mystery.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

We can't all do everything.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

They succeed, because they think they can.

Love conquers all.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Trust not too much to appearances.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Fortune favours the bold.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Fate will find a way.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

They are able because they think they are able.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

They can because they think they can.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

He enters the port with a full sail.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Images contaminate us like viruses.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.