“Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.”

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they’re made to look dumb! The ‘superior species’ in their situations would, too, appear ‘dumb’.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

And how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history.