The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master