To the fool-king belongs the world.
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.