Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

All men know their children mean more than life.

The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

Authority is never without hate.