It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.