Delusive hope still points to distant good.
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
Virtue proceeds through effort.