Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
The greatest victory is over self.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.
Cruel is the strife of brothers.