Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.