Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
What we wish, that we readily believe.
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.