Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.